Maybe hatred has nothing to do with the devil either. Maybe it’s something we’ve invented. And then we just blame it on you, God, or on the devil, because it’s easier than blaming ourselves…4.5 stars - Some spoilers ahead -The first thing I looked at was the number of books, Four. Afterwards I decid...
Nope. They're both boring me to tears and after so long with nothing happening at all, I can't devote precious reading time to it. It's annoying as the idea is a good one, but having read newer YA with far more evolved and in-depth main characters, the whiny self-involved behaviour of the two main p...
I first read Noughts & Crosses around five years ago and gave it an instant five star rating. On reading it again, I saw why it had so appealed to my fifteen year old self and also that it still appealed to me now at almost-twenty. But I still felt the need to drop it from a five star rating to a fo...
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society. Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have ...
I had a hard time thinking of the "naughts" being "white" and the "Crosses" being "dark skinned". The reason being that I felt the dialogue wasn't right. In my head the "naughts" sounded like African American characters and the "Crosses" sounded Caucasian. So it was hard to think of them the way I w...
Before I begin to review this book, I feel that it's important to disclose that I chose to read it simply because each time a conversation has begun about the negativity of discrimination flips, Noughts & Crosses has been referred to repeatedly.In the world that Blackman has created, Noughts (read: ...
Do I dare read the next one? Considering this one’s already got my emotions swinging from one extreme to another? That ending…that ending… THAT ENDING!! has me split between: and thenOne has got to appreciate witnessing the change in the two involved: she’s sweet and sunshine and optimistic; he’s no...
“You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.” The tears had sprung out of my eyes instant...
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